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Status: Verified (3)

RFC 792, "Internet Control Message Protocol", September 1981

Note: This RFC has been updated by RFC 950, RFC 4884, RFC 6633, RFC 6918

Source of RFC: Legacy
Area Assignment: int

Errata ID: 577
Status: Verified
Type: Technical
Publication Format(s) : TEXT
Reported By: Beren Sanders
Date Reported: 2002-09-09

On p. 16 and 18, it says:

   IP Fields:

   Type

It should say:

   ICMP Fields:

   Type

Notes:

On page 16, the section 'Timestamp and Timestamp Reply Messages' has
the header 'IP Fields:' - first mentioned after the graph and then
again after 'Addresses'. The second one should actually be 'ICMP
Fields:'. This error also occurs in the discussion of the
'Information Request and Information Reply Message' on page 18.

The second 'IP Fields:' section of these two sets of message
descriptions are really talking about fields in the ICMP header not
the IP header.

[This report was updated 2009-03-11 to specify the original and corrected text, as indicated by Nikolai Malykh.]

Errata ID: 576
Status: Verified
Type: Editorial
Publication Format(s) : TEXT
Reported By: Arun Darlie Koshy
Date Reported: 2004-03-26

In the Introduction, fourth paragraph, it says:

Also ICMP messages are only sent about errors in handling fragment zero of
fragemented datagrams.  (Fragment zero has the fragment offeset equal
zero).

It should say:

Also ICMP messages are only sent about errors in handling fragment zero of
fragmented datagrams.  (Fragment zero has the fragment offset equal
zero).

Errata ID: 6458
Status: Verified
Type: Editorial
Publication Format(s) : TEXT
Reported By: Ivan Panchenko
Date Reported: 2021-03-07
Verifier Name: Erik Kline
Date Verified: 2021-03-07

Section [Page 17] says: 

      If the time is not available in miliseconds or cannot be provided

It should say:

      If the time is not available in milliseconds or cannot be provided

Notes:

Misspelled "milliseconds".

Status: Held for Document Update (4)

RFC 792, "Internet Control Message Protocol", September 1981

Note: This RFC has been updated by RFC 950, RFC 4884, RFC 6633, RFC 6918

Source of RFC: Legacy
Area Assignment: int

Errata ID: 1231
Status: Held for Document Update
Type: Editorial
Publication Format(s) : TEXT
Reported By: Stéphane Bortzmeyer
Date Reported: 2008-01-04
Held for Document Update by: ron bonica

In the Introduction, it says:

no ICMP messages are sent about ICMP messages

It should say:

no ICMP messages are sent about ICMP error messages

Notes:

For instance, echo replies are sent about echo messages. The context of the original sentence indicates that the author only referred to error messages but the sentence itself is not clear and I've seen the editorial error reproduced in some places.

Errata ID: 1703
Status: Held for Document Update
Type: Editorial
Publication Format(s) : TEXT
Reported By: Nikolai Malykh
Date Reported: 2009-03-02
Held for Document Update by: ron bonica

On page 14, it says:

   IP Fields:

   Type

      8 for echo message;

It should say:

   ICMP Fields:

   Type

      8 for echo message;

Errata ID: 2935
Status: Held for Document Update
Type: Editorial
Publication Format(s) : TEXT
Reported By: Jeffrey Connell
Date Reported: 2011-08-13
Held for Document Update by: ron bonica

On page 17, it says:

The identifier and sequence number may be used by the echo sender
to aid in matching the replies with the requests.

It should say:

The identifier and sequence number may be used by the timestamp sender 
to aid in matching the replies with the requests.

Notes:

In the "Description" of the "Timestamp or Timestamp Reply" message. Appears to be a copy-paste error from the "Echo or Echo Reply" message's description.

Errata ID: 2936
Status: Held for Document Update
Type: Editorial
Publication Format(s) : TEXT
Reported By: Jeffrey Connell
Date Reported: 2011-08-13
Held for Document Update by: ron bonica

On page 19, it says:

The identifier and sequence number may be used by the echo sender
to aid in matching the replies with the requests.

It should say:

The identifier and sequence number may be used by the information request
sender to aid in matching the replies with the requests.

Notes:

In the "Description" of the "Information Request or Information Reply" message. Appears to be a copy-paste error from the "Echo or Echo Reply" message's description.

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